Essentially, tree planting is one method of staving off the imminency of consequence, but really just delaying the problem and avoiding the real solutions - George Monbiot, an English environmentalist and writer, argues all offsetting fits this depiction, comparing the concept to purchasing Indulgences in the Middle Ages, whereby citizens would buy forgiveness for their sins as opposed to actually not sinning.

Pennsylvania, English blood in, in 1775, I; evil of Indian policy in; imminency of fight with Virginia; conflict of interests with Virginia; traders; neutrality in Lord Dunmore's war; her traders protected by Shawnees; panic on the frontier;

She succeeds, in a measure, and Agathe confesses that she had felt a premonition of danger ever since a pious Hermit, to whom she had gone for counsel in the course of the day, had warned her of the imminency of a calamity which he could not describe.